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Articles on ‘Africa and the drugs trade revisited’

Chain work: the cultivation of hierarchy in Sierra Leone’s cannabis economy

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Interviews

  • Pseudonyms are used throughout to protect the identities of the author’s interlocutors.
  • Musa, cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 2 October 2013.
  • B.I.G., cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 16 September 2013.
  • Mr Iskandrie, former APC politician, Waterloo, 19 August 2013.
  • David, cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 12 November 2013.
  • Hindowa, former cannabis cultivator, Freetown, 9 December 2013.
  • Musa, cannabis cultivator, Hastings, 20 November 2013.
  • Turkish, cannabis cultivator, Hastings, 17 September 2013.
  • Alie, cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 11 November 2013.
  • Bishie, cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 11 October 2013.
  • Samuel Joseph, cannabis cultivator, Hastings, 26 September 2013.
  • Mohnga, cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 24 October 2013.
  • Musa, cannabis cultivator, Waterloo, 4 May 2013.

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